Ocassionally I write commands in my notes app before copying and pasting them into iTerm. It’s very easy to type “regular quotes” and not notice macOS has converted them into “smart quotes”.

Then your command doesn’t run, and you get an error message that doesn’t make any sense because the arguments aren’t being parsed correctly, but you don’t notice at first it’s the quotes that are wrong because the font is too small and your mind is fixated on looking for spelling mistakes and syntax problems…

Avoiding having to manually click/press the home button to unlock the phone when you are viewing the notifications screen (there isn’t any benefit to this on iPhone 6 or 6s). Go to: Settings > Accessibility > Home Button > turn on “Rest finger to open”.The caption on the lock screen will still read says “Press home to open”, but you only need rest your finger on the TouchID sensor. Note this option is only available if the device has TouchID – if you don’t have a fingerprint sensor, you must click the (mechanical) button manually.

(not new to iOS 10) – if you are fed up of accidentally bringing up the Apply Pay / wallet screen because you clicked the home button twice by mistake when the display was off, go to Settings > Apple Pay and Wallet and turn “Double-Click Home Button” off – with this, double clicks will just wake/unlock the phone instead.

There’s a new Emergency Bypass setting in contacts. You can set it separately for ringtones and texts and it’s described as allowing “sounds and vibrations from this person even when Do Not Disturb is on.”Be aware, however, it means your iPhone will sound for that person regardless of the position of the Ring/Silent switch – this may mean you don’t want to use it after all, if you want to guarantee your device will be silent when the switch is set to silent.

I opened a bug report about it with Apple who closed the radar and marked it as “behaves as intended.”

Due for public release next year (I’ve watched the full version and there are quite a few screenings left) this is a great film about the history of the World Wide Web, covering early browsers, table-based layout, the pros and cons of Flash, browser compatibility, the birth of web standards and css, responsive design, the web versus apps…

Inbox actions are the buttons you see to right of previews in your inbox, for things like confirming subscriptions, tracking parcels, responding to calendar invites and so on. Postmark have written a helpful guide to how to implement them.

Note they only work if you are sending a reasonably high volume of mails.